Sorting on distance from a long/lat

2006-11-21 Thread spamsucks
I am successfully able to search for "nearbys" given a longitude and a latitude. The basic summary of how I do this is that I add 1000 to the long/lat values and use a RangeFilter in my query. In my display results, I display the results ordered by distance from the original long/lat. What I

Federated search (lucene custom and nutch)?

2006-11-21 Thread spamsucks
Hi Everybody, I am successfully using lucene to index/display results for a hugely successful tourism site... We even for nearby's of attractions of different categories. Love it. The next step is to start indexing all the "legacy" content, which numbers around 3000 or so JSP's that will n

Write my own crawler VS use nutch?

2007-01-26 Thread spamsucks
I am successfully using lucene in our application to index 12 different types of objects located in a database, and their relationships to each other to provide some nice search functionality for our website. We are building lots of lucene queries programmatically to filter based upon categori

Looking for crawler recommendations.

2007-02-01 Thread spamsucks
Has anyone integrated a crawler with lucene that they had success with? I cannot use Nutch, since 60% of our searchable content is contained in a database. I need to do a hybrid between database indexing and website crawling. I would be just crawling one domain with a given set of directorie

Increase performance using Pool of IndexSearchers?

2007-02-07 Thread spamsucks
I currently am sharing my IndexSearcher across multiple requests as a static object. While I understand that the IndexSearcher is threadsafe, this does not necessarily mean that it's multi-threaded capable. I was wondering if there is any thread blocking going on between requests? Would it